Back in April of last year, Konami announced a new mobile entry in their decades-running Castlevania series. Like the more recent announcements of mobile entries in popular franchises, like Alien and Diablo, the console and PC crowd did not take kindly to the announcement. However, the game itself, titled Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, actually sounded really cool. It features classic 2D side-scrolling gameplay but with characters, monsters, and environments all modeled in 3D, a style typically dubbed 2.5D. Like many mobile games in popular AAA franchises, Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls would feature multiple characters from throughout the series history and would also include the option for cooperative online play for up to 4 players. And as we all probably expected it would also be a free to play game. The month following its announcement, a closed beta test was conducted in Japan for Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls, resulting in various bits of random footage making its way onto YouTube, like in this following video.
One question everyone was wondering after the reveal of Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls was if it would in fact make its way outside of Japan. As we’ve come to learn over the years it’s not totally uncommon for a game to become phenomenally popular in Asian territories but still never make its way out West, likely due to the often difficult and expensive task of localization. Well, today Konami released an earnings report and along with it ...